06-22-2017, 06:39 PM
Thanks, guys. I appreciate the welcomes.
Maxheadroom, I know EXACTLY what you mean when you say, "Mint became overloaded". That's part of what I believe caused the performance problems I kept having. I was running Mint Mate, and not XFCE, but I had installed and tried Mint XFCE in the past, and it just wasn't as solid and fast as I thought it should have been. A good friend and former business partner and I complain about distros "bloating". We just don't see why so many of the creators of what "should be" lightweight and solid distros end up allowing their creation to become so big and bloated.
We also complain about Firefox doing the same thing. I've been around the computer industry a long time so I've seen this happen to operating systems and applications a lot. One of the first to really bug me was good, old, Netscape. Netscape just blew Internet Explorer away back in the day. That held true through about version 4.6 and then Netscape started to become the "everything you need", big, bloated piece of software that I could no longer take. Firefox was fantastic through somewhere around version 3.X and it stared to bloat up as well.
I fully understand that change is necessary to keep up with security problems, changes to web sites, etc, etc, but I just don't see the need for a lot of what eventually gets packed into an app or OS. But enough of my ranting. I just popped on here to check for replies to my only post so far. As soon as I leave I'm going to install Lite on my wife's laptop. She is insisting I load her machine up first this time as I occasionally don't get to hers in a timely manner after I get my laptop and/or desktop installed and tweaked.
Thanks again for the welcomes!
Maxheadroom, I know EXACTLY what you mean when you say, "Mint became overloaded". That's part of what I believe caused the performance problems I kept having. I was running Mint Mate, and not XFCE, but I had installed and tried Mint XFCE in the past, and it just wasn't as solid and fast as I thought it should have been. A good friend and former business partner and I complain about distros "bloating". We just don't see why so many of the creators of what "should be" lightweight and solid distros end up allowing their creation to become so big and bloated.
We also complain about Firefox doing the same thing. I've been around the computer industry a long time so I've seen this happen to operating systems and applications a lot. One of the first to really bug me was good, old, Netscape. Netscape just blew Internet Explorer away back in the day. That held true through about version 4.6 and then Netscape started to become the "everything you need", big, bloated piece of software that I could no longer take. Firefox was fantastic through somewhere around version 3.X and it stared to bloat up as well.
I fully understand that change is necessary to keep up with security problems, changes to web sites, etc, etc, but I just don't see the need for a lot of what eventually gets packed into an app or OS. But enough of my ranting. I just popped on here to check for replies to my only post so far. As soon as I leave I'm going to install Lite on my wife's laptop. She is insisting I load her machine up first this time as I occasionally don't get to hers in a timely manner after I get my laptop and/or desktop installed and tweaked.
Thanks again for the welcomes!
Steve
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